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Bara Brith

Bara Brith

By Morrisons
Published on 03 November 2021
Bara brith, or "speckled bread", is a traditional Welsh fruit loaf. Our version is baked using self-raising flour instead of the traditional yeast method, however it is delicious served sliced and buttered. Yum.
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Time and servings

1 hr 30 minsTotal time
12Servings
15 minsPrep time
1 hr 15 minsCooking time

Ingredients

  • 1 large of egg, beaten
  • 100 g of unsalted butter, melted and cooled
  • 15 cubes of sugar, roughly cut
  • 2 tsp of ground mixed spice
  • 1 orange, zest only
  • 400 g of mixed dried fruit
  • 200 g of strong tea, strained
  • 300 g of self-raising flour
  • 150 g of light muscovado sugar

Method

  1. Step 1

    Preheat the oven to 170ºC/150ºC fan/Gas 3. Grease and line a 1.2-litre non-stick loaf tin with non-stick baking parchment.
  2. Step 2

    Add the sugar to the dried fruit mix and stir well. Add the orange zest, butter and beaten egg and stir together.
  3. Step 3

    Sieve the flour and mixed spice into the bowl and stir everything well.
  4. Step 4

    Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin. Scatter over the sugar cubes.
  5. Step 5

    Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  6. Step 6

    Leave to cool completely in the baking tin. Serve sliced and buttered.